This application note describes the extraction of a range of amphetamine-type compounds from whole blood, prior to GC/MS analysis. A protocol that allows the simultaneous extraction of various other drugs of abuse classes: barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cocaine and opiates, is also evaluated.
ISOLUTE® SLE+ columns with 1 mL sample capacity are used to extract whole blood samples following a straightforward sample dilution. No protein precipitation or other pre-treatment is required prior to sample loading. The sample preparation procedure delivers clean extracts, good recoveries and RSD values and LLOQs from 10 ng/mL (analyte dependant).

This application note describes the extraction of a range of recreational ecstasy-like drugs, designer stimulants and the hallucinogen 2C-B from urine prior to GC/MS analysis. The method described in this application note may also be suitable for extraction of other related analogs and derivatives of these drug compounds, for example the substituted cathinone class (bathsalts). This application note is optimized for extraction of 1 mL sample volumes.

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